Peckham Festival will return to various venues across the area from this Thursday and this year they are going green.
Members of the community will be showcasing their art, music and lots more.
With lots of different events for people to get stuck into, the majority of the weekend is free to all.
In light of recent events, the organisers considered carefully about holding the festival this weekend, but decided that bringing together the local community was of value at this time. “Also, the past couple of years have been tough for creatives, traders and small businesses and the festival provides a useful networking and trading platform for them,” Jules Hill, the festival’s director explains.
Whilst other street festivals have been cancelled by local councils, Peckham Festival is held at various creative hubs that are on privately owned land.
They are holding a minute’s silence at 8pm on Sunday, to collectively pay respects to Queen Elizabeth II’s passing.
The theme of the festival this year is sustainability.
It will all kick off with the launch event on Thursday at 6pm, which will include the opening of a permanent Festival Community Garden ‘Holdrons Green’ in Copeland Park and a human-powered film screening of Grease by the Peckham-based company, Electric Pedals.
“We’ve also got an immersive fashion show featuring clothes made from recycled materials and sustainable methods – it’s going be a fully immersive experience!” Jules says.
There will also be a live music stage – featuring up-and-coming, Peckham and South East London-based artists, such as Morgan Munroe, as well as community performances by the likes of Kinetika Bloco, a group with an exuberant mix of young brass and woodwind players, drummers, steel pan and dancers.
Over 100 local artists will be opening up their homes, studios or workshops to show their art to the community, as part of the “Made in Peckham” open space event. Street food will be supplied over the festival weekend by all the local favourites and local start ups including Fat Crust and the Vegan Rasta.
“It’s very much a community celebration.”
“There’s two fabulous theatre shows about climate change – ‘St Joan/Greta‘ at the Asylum Space and ‘Heavy Weather‘ at Theatre Peckham – they’re performed by local teenagers.” Tickets to these shows are on a donation basis.
Peckham Festival will run from Thursday 15th – Sunday 18th September across several different venues across Peckham, with the main sites being Copeland Park and Peckham Levels.
A full timetable of what’s on offer can be seen on their website.
